Top 100 Quotes About Tends
#1. It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.
Frances Perkins
#2. I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
#3. Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support.
Robert H. Jackson
#4. What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
Alfred North Whitehead
#5. By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.
Terry Pratchett
#6. Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Alexander Pope
#7. Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.
Joan Armatrading
#8. When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.
Norman Vincent Peale
#9. The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.
Rosa Montero
#10. He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
Abraham Maslow
#11. I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#12. God comes through all people, in the way that people experience themselves. The beautiful part about God is that God is trans-cultural, and tends to reveal himself through the experiential filters of all people to whom he is revealed.
Neale Donald Walsch
#13. Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.
Tom Brokaw
#14. In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.
Frank Miller
#15. Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.
Frank Herbert
#16. From the tiniest experience of your daily life to your grand perception of the universe, in various situations, the human brain tends to create its own myth and stories.
Abhijit Naskar
#17. In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#18. Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural.
Solange Knowles
#19. There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
Joseph Hume
#20. same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, "although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge," wrote Orwell, tends to be "uninterested in what happens in the real world." Nationalism
Timothy Snyder
#21. A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.
Yann Martel
#22. When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.
Bruce Feiler
#23. Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.
Dacia Maraini
#24. The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire.
Thomm Quackenbush
#25. Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.
Erik Naggum
#26. Yes, my enormous sexual appetite tends to scare men away. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to find my dinner date.
Stacia Kane
#27. One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it
E.M.Foster
#28. A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
Fidel Castro
#29. My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
Camille Paglia
#30. The lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.
Emily James Smith Putnam
#31. So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.
Jeffrey Jones
#32. Love is a condition that tends to cloud men's reason, but it is not fatal. Usually all the patient needs is to have his love returned, and he will snap out of it and begin to sniff the air in search of new prey
Isabel Allende
#33. The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.
Stephen King
#34. I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.
Ashton Kutcher
#35. The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden
#36. I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.
Holly Hunter
#37. There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway.
Timothy Olyphant
#38. Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.
Will Wright
#39. Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.
Ricky Van Veen
#40. The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.
Elisabeth Badinter
#41. No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.
Nicole Gulla
#42. My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown.
H.P. Lovecraft
#43. I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.
John Gordon Sinclair
#44. You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
Lance Reddick
#45. I never drink cow's milk; I always opt for the soya alternative, and when I eat most dairy products, it tends to be in extremely small doses. However, being a vegetarian means I have to get protein from somewhere, so I do eat eggs and cheese about once a week.
Kate O'Mara
#46. There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
Chris O'Dowd
#47. Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.
Norman Cousins
#48. A Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases,
Diana Gabaldon
#49. I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.
Jeremy Denk
#50. I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.
Moby
#51. One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.
John James Cowperthwaite
#52. Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
#53. My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
Anne Lamott
#54. I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.
Albert Einstein
#55. As with 'feminism,' not to mention 'liberalism' and 'conservatism,' 'political correctness' tends to mean what you want it to mean, which also pretty much amounts to utter meaninglessness.
Meghan Daum
#56. Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#57. Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
Jack Bowman
#58. If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.
Seymour Chwast
#59. That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
Larry Wall
#60. But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out - what happened.
Ali Smith
#61. As we become aware of our own unavoidable termination, we become aware of the fear-emotion. And I think that, as copulation tends towards self-preservation, all fear tends towards a comprehension of the final ending.
Stephen King
#62. Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.
Jane Goodall
#63. There was a place where all light tends to go, and I reckon that was heaven.
David Joy
#64. Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.
Paul Bloom
#65. Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
Tom DeMarco
#66. When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.
Gaspard Ulliel
#67. In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.
Pope Francis
#68. Every step in life tends risky, face it to write a story wen it bcums an History
Bukoye Micheal
#69. The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.
William Kingdon Clifford
#70. The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
Kevin DeYoung
#71. The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
#72. Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.
Joss Whedon
#73. Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
Aristotle.
#74. In the birth charts of tarot readers, Neptune tends to figure prominently, often in aspect to the Moon, which is also related to intuition and psychic awareness.
Anthony Louis
#75. She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.
P.G. Wodehouse
#76. There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti
#77. I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience - or rather to become itself experience concentrated. You will say this is a dull picture, but I cultivate dulness in a world grown too noisy.
Henry James
#78. In our line of work the more humiliated a person is, the more viral the story tends to go. Shame can factor large in the life of a journalist - the personal avoidance of it and the professional bestowing of it onto others.
Jon Ronson
#79. When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.
Mark Leyner
#80. When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.
Chris Matakas
#81. A positive attitude from you tends to produce a positive attitude toward you.
Deborah Day
#82. An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.
Charles Baudouin
#83. Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.
Anthony Kennedy
#84. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan
#85. Rumination tends to be eased if we learn to be mindful; if we are able to be aware of, and understand how our own thoughts work.
Peter Kinderman
#86. I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.
John P. Kotter
#87. What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.
Robert Orben
#88. So much of life consists of inertia and drift, the brief savory or sour of any particular day tends to blur into the next so that it all becomes one big flavorless wad.
Ben Fountain
#89. It's the irony of woman's life in that she tends to turn her assets to her own detriment in that while her psyche seeks to see her man strong; her instinct tries to weaken him.
BS Murthy
#90. The maker movement is mostly about building things (whether low-tech or high-tech), as well as creating art and music. But it's driven by project-based, peer-to-peer learning, which tends to happen as novice "makers
Warren Berger
#91. The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.
John Gruber
#92. There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
Alan Kay
#93. The author stipulates that while television lately background noise for a child, it tends to shift to the foreground for the adult. The adult pays enough attention to the media attention is paid to the child.
Gary Chapman
#94. Can we, then, set aside the impatience that the Internet tends to breed, and the habits of being distracted which our highly compacted modern lives create, in order to focus on what really matters?
David F. Wells
#95. Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#96. However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we've seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that's pretty intense.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#97. As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.
Taylor Swift
#98. Inspiration is like perspiration. It tends to strike at the most inopportune of times.
Max Hawthorne
#99. You either believe in Europe at any price: in other words we have to be in Europe at any price because you can't survive without it, or you don't. If you don't it tends to suggest there is a price which you are not willing to pay.
Liam Fox
#100. Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices.
Temple Grandin
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